"Now when I said / you should hit the nail / on the head / I meant just one."

Good Parent - I woke up very early to make the trek for these Eared Grebes. The wet winter and extended cooler temperatures through June seemed to favor breeding for many species of shorebirds such as phalaropes, ducks, grebes, etc. Using the fully articulating screen of the camera, I was able to lay down at the water's edge and capture this low angle image. A nice feature to have for waterbirds, since I no longer have to lay down fully prone and put strain on my neck and back. Was an emotionally moving, dream experience to observe the grebe parents diligently feed and watch over their young. I wanted to start out with this clean portrait and follow up with a behavioral image.

Species: Eared Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis)

Location: Northern California, CA, USA

Equipment: Canon EOS R7 + RF 100-500mm IS

Settings: 1/500s, ISO: 2000, f/7.1 @500mm, Handheld, Electronic Shutter

I didn’t intend to photograph Luke. In fact, I hadn’t even noticed him. I was shooting my usual subjects when Luke ‘photobombed’ me. We struck up a conversation and he then offered to pose for me which I readily agreed to. He was quite articulate and genuinely interested in seeing the photos I took of him. We had quite a long chat and he told me about his life.

Luke, if you see this, cheers brother!

As promised, I made a marvel figure. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Similar to m Kitty Pryde I made a while back, This is a posed figure. He articulates the same as a regular Minifigure, but only really works in the pose in the photo.

The left leg was cut off at the heel and connected with wire to another leg and covered in ProCreate. The right one is a woody leg cut at the heel on an angle with a 1x1 glued on to get that angle on the heel.

The arms are done with the same technique, except his right hand is from a flashlight figure, to appear stretched larger.

The torso is done the same way, but using a sucker stick instead of wire.

The head is Legolas, with the mouth tweaked slightly and the left brow painted a bit higher. The hair is Sandman.

Overall I think this turned out great. What do you think?

Also, this is my entry to 100and500SCContest, since I haven't seen anything like this before.

Thanks!

-Jared

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Seen on Galatea Creek Hike, Alberta, Canada

G major is the key that expresses a kind of calm and gentle emotion of the heart. I can hardly nail down to any words to articulate how this tiny waterfall made me feel at the time. I only know it made my heart sing.

The witness sees suffering for what it is, without denying it, twisting it into a story of endurance, or giving it a happy ending. The witness has a profound and rare human capacity to give reverent attention to sufferers and reflect their truth back to them. And in the encounter with those who suffer, the witness undergoes conversion from numbed or removed observer to passionate advocate.

In Lamentations the narrator sees and hears the magnitude of Zion's suffering. He does not deny it, reduce it to a nicer version of itself, or blanket it with theological platitudes. Instead, he reflects back to her the pain she can barely articulate. And somehow, his ability to admit her reality into his consciousness changes him; his encounter with her “turns his spirit” (cf. 1: 16b). He grasps the truth about her situation and affirms that her suffering overwhelms him as well.

-Lamentations and the Tears of the World, Kathleen M. O’Connor

"No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself"

-Thomas Mann

“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”

-Edward R. Murrow

There are no words I can even articulate to explain why this is just so Poetic..

View On White

since feeling is first

e.e. cummings

since feeling is first

who pays any attention

to the syntax of things

will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool

while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,

and kisses are a far better fate

than wisdom

lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry

--the best gesture of my brain is less than

your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for eachother: then

laugh, leaning back in my arms

for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

As I read and reread his letters, I also noticed how Teilhard, who was so sensitive to the beauty of the cosmos, was also at one with the evolutionary process and with the struggle inherent in its very dynamics. The theory of Evolution had a profound influence on his thought and spirituality and seems to have given him the strength not only to confront the struggle but also to see the struggle as necessary for his growth. In fact, all paths to union require struggle against the forces that either divide us or resist a forward movement. Like the patriarchs and prophets of old, Teilhard had clearly accepted a prophetic role that would require much suffering: to articulate an image of the Cosmic Christ that is ravishing enough for the modern World, to make clear Christ's connection to the evolutionary cosmos, and to find words and images that could update and reinvigorate the Church's message.

-Teilhard's Struggle, Embracing the Work of Evolution, Kathleen Duffy, SSJ

Photos for Poems

De Baudelaire:

Celui qui regarde du dehors à travers une fenêtre ouverte, ne voit jamais autant de choses que celui qui regarde une fenêtre fermée. [...]

("Les fenêtres, In Les Petits Poèmes en Prose)

Please watch the film Las Ventanas, with the spanish version of this text, by Potosi Productions. I thank ferminet for having shown me this link some days ago. It's stunningly poetic, even if you can't understand spanish.

ain't no sunshine when she's gone

it's not warm when she's away

ain't no sunshine when she's gone

and she's always gone too long

anytime she goes away...

These last two posts have subtle differences based on evolving design principle I cant articulate and probably don't understand, but if I could explain, I would not be motivated to do the art in the first place and this would not exist.

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"Direct your eye

right inward,

and you'll find

a thousand regions

in your mind

yet undiscovered.

Travel them,

and be

expert in

HOME COSMOGRAPHY"

(HENRY DAVID THOREAU, 1854)

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Not bent in *that* way, but articulated bent. I didn't know bees could bend and look cut in half. An articulate(d) bee.

Yes, more bees, I'm afraid. I'm fascinated. We bought many plants after this to plant in our back forty.

Nikon D810, Nikkor 70-200mm (200mm)

1/4000 sec; f/2.8; ISO 640

manual exposure, monopod

Thanks for looking at my new-to-me bees!

digital art

I found a very good location yesterday. A riverside full of stones and small mountain in the otherside of the river. Nature colors looks so nice on this time of year. I had my camera borrowed to my parents and I borrowed my friends Nikon D5100. I had to say, that D5100's articulating screen feature is awesome, so handy.

Poblat ibèric de Sant Antoni (Calaceit) La Franja, Països Catalans

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Don't shout louder, just articulate distinctly.

Drawing: Charcoal, Graphite on Paper.

I just kept on building layers on this piece hoping to articulate this feeling of great sorrow by keep on applying & erasing charcoal until it scratches the paper at certain points...as this grief that I'm feeling comes and goes, but depression is unremitting...

Fixative is applied every now and then to allow the charcoal to stick on scratches allowing this piece to have a sense of texture.

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Twin Lakes, CO - This is just outside of Leadville, Colorado. I could not believe how still the water was. The camera was low, placed right above the water. In fact, it was so low that the bottom of the lens hood got a little wet. I used the articulating screen to help compose the shot.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. They are sluggish, yet more wayward, and never without a melancholy tinge. Sights and impressions which others brush aside with a glance, a light comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, adventure. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Thomas Mann; Death in Venice

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

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Since Paul V. Heath's (1950-) publication in Calyx 56 (4) (1997), p.136, our Senecio is called a Curio. The scientific article is rather hard to find and the new taxonomical designation hasn't yet caught on, so I keep to the Hortus's Senecio.

Indeed, this succulent has gone by confusingly many names. The Supplement to 'Linnaeus' at the end of the eighteenth century uses the name Cacalia carnosa; later it's Kleinia and later again the more familiar Senecio. The 'articulatus' is for the articulate stems, sectioned much as a string of sausages or hot-dogs, worsies in Afrikaans. I suppose the Latin 'carnosa' by which it was known in the times of Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828) who collected it in South Africa - as the Supplement says - suggests those sausages.

Anyway, in the dry glass house of the Hortus this morning its flowers were appropriately being visited by a Blue Bottle Fly, a so-called Flesh Fly. It's seeking nectar, but will lay its eggs later in something meaty.

time flies

as we rush by

Roger McGough, the state of poetry

Writers knows how deep and how strong is the felling of having a new book out. It's like the birth of a son, at least that is what I feel.

Tired of the prolonged silence of some editor, I've decided to try the way of self publishing. Forgive me if it won't corresponds to your expectations: I did my best as editor.

So, here's the link of my first book of poems in english, where you can buy it with a couple of clicks and not so much money (I did my best even to maintain its price low, and make it accessible).

I am planning to publish something more, but mine, generally speaking, is the pace of a snail. Stay tuned. And thanks to those who'll buy my fifth, foreign son.

the depth of the emotion

the adventure of viewing

the allowing of getting involved

the courage to articulate

no architect can imagine all visual references he creates ...

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A rose unfurled its petals in my garden overnight.

For Ana - U+22 1E

It seems as though words could never fully express your experiences and how you feel as though you’re wilted and withering beneath the enormous weight of being trapped under the horrific harm that was done to you. So you find meaning and healing through what you see and the pictures you thoughtfully capture. Thank you for following your intuition and allowing yourself to find a way to help articulate and give voice to what is inside you even though it can feel wrong, unimportant, frivolous, scary, unfamiliar and unnecessary. Through your courageous work in this area you have been able to find one helpful way to cope and experience some healing.

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One day while taking pictures of things in our garage that I found fascinating, I noticed this tiny branch with dried leaves that had broken off the bush next to the garage. It was trapped under the garage door and when I saw this I felt I could deeply relate to the story this scene seemed to tell me.

#MacroMondays

#Fictitious

A snake? A dragon? Both, I'd say. In a fantasy world, where a year has 13 months, the Dragon Serpent is the 13th zodiac sign, and the element of fire reigns every 13th year.

This Schleich mini figurine came to my rescue when I couldn't make my original idea work. I had ventured out to a nearby toy shop replete with checkout negotiation dramas (boy, about 4: "Look, Dad, look, I absolutely still need this set, it has these special parts. I need it!" Dad, while paying for the baby doll for the boy's toddler sister who was wailing at the top of her voice because the evil lady at the register had "taken away" her new toy: "I. Won't. Buy. You. This. Today. You've. Had. Enough.") and returned home with two (too) large Schleich figures – a huge black T-Rex with an articulating mouth (and a very impressive set of teeth), and a "stone monster" troll figure with arms (and hands) bigger than Hulk's and an articulating mouth as well. With the latter, I had the idea of doing a "stone, paper, scissor" type of image, because paper beats stone ("How to shut up a Troll"). But (not surprisingly) it didn't work within the 3-inch limit even though the stone monster has a fairly small head (compared to its body) that probably contains a brain the size of a speck of dust.

So in the end I used what I already had in one of my many MM boxes. A few years or so ago, I bought a set of these "Schleich Minis", as usual with a possible MM use in mind. They are most likely part of Schleich's "Eldrador" fantasy world that is inhabited by all kinds of gruesome monsters and dragons. Just my type of thing ;)

For this small scene, I put the "dragon serpent" figurine (which is 4,5 cm/1,77 inches long) in front of a necklace that I have already used for two other MM themes ("Copper" from May 2019 and "Pouch" from September 2020, both images are in the first comment), so I knew it would yield some nice background bokeh. I wanted to create something reminiscent of traditional Chinese zodiac design. I made the pendant stand up with the help of a small piece of modeling clay. The first idea was to also drape the serpent in gold chains, but that looked too busy. So I used only the pendant and its chain which I laid out in three straight lines for a harmonious-looking background. The dragon serpent sits on a gold-coloured piece of cardboard that once was part of food packaging. Its uneven surface looks like soft ripples of water which I think looks nice in this setup and adds depth to the image. The final image is a focus stack made of 15 images which I've combined in Helicon Focus (method C, smoothing 5).

HMM, Everyone!

When I need a cocoon

You are there for me

Timeless, endless

Whispering to me ancient wisdoms

Always my sanctuary

I'll tell you how the Sun rose -

A ribbon at a time (Emily Dickinson)

Explored May 16 #397 (highest). Thank you Flickr :)

Se tardi a trovarmi, insisti. Se non ci sono in un posto, cerca in un altro. Perché io son fermo da qualche parte ad aspettare te.

(Walt Whitman)

There's a message in this image I'm not able to clearly articulate, but it's a metaphor for the times women are now living in. Seemingly ignored, diminished, having one's space invaded by strangers who care little about you. Seen at an outdoor cafe, central Galway, Ireland

Clown Duck - How low is low enough? The new articulating screens on the new cameras are actually surprisingly handy to get eye level with the water without ruining my neck/back/shoulders as I used to do several years ago.

Species: Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata)

Location: Northern California, CA, USA

Equipment: Canon EOS R5 + EF 100-400mm IS II + 1.4x TC III, Handheld

Settings: 1/250s, ISO: 800, f/8 @896mm (APS-C Mode), Electronic Shutter

Before Stephen Shore I would have been upset there is a car upsetting this scene, but now I appreciate it as being an element articulating the middle ground in this layered urban space.

The fact that it's hue matches that of the facade of the museum is good, but maybe a gentle blue would have worked nicer.

Or not?

On occasion Stephen Shore would deliberately park his car in the scene to add to the visual content and fill voids of space.

Another mural by Ola Volo, near Granville and 13th in Vancouver.

Who is Ola Volo?

Ola Volo (BFA, Emily Carr University) is a Canadian Mural artist and illustrator from Kazakhstan with a distinctive style drawn from folklore, multiculturalism and identity. Her intricate works bring animals, people, architecture and nature together to articulate diverse stories rich with symbolism and elaborate forms. Ola creates complex narratives that acknowledge the subtleties of human nature while celebrating the little surprises of everyday life.

Her work is internationally recognized for its inventiveness and unique stories; every character is full of spirited personality and inhabits a dynamic environment. Her practice lends itself often to the public realm, with many of her murals helping to shape and beautify spaces across the world. As well as creating commissions for a wide range of international clients including Starbucks, Louis Vuitton, Lululemon and Volkswagen, Volo also finds time to do gallery artwork.

Une autre murale par Ola Volo, près de Granville et 13th à Vancouver.

Qui est Ola Volo ?

Ola Volo (BFA, Emily Carr University) est une artiste murale et illustratrice canadienne du Kazakhstan avec un style distinctif tiré du folklore, du multiculturalisme et de l'identité. Ses œuvres complexes rassemblent les animaux, les personnes, l'architecture et la nature pour articuler diverses histoires riches de symbolisme et de formes élaborées. Ola crée des récits complexes qui reconnaissent les subtilités de la nature humaine tout en célébrant les petites surprises de la vie quotidienne.

Son travail est internationalement reconnu pour son inventivité et ses histoires uniques ; chaque personnage est plein de personnalité fougueuse et habite un environnement dynamique. Sa pratique se prête souvent au domaine public, nombre de ses peintures murales aidant à façonner et à embellir des espaces à travers le monde. En plus de créer des commandes pour un large éventail de clients internationaux, notamment Starbucks, Louis Vuitton, Lululemon et Volkswagen, Volo trouve également le temps de créer des œuvres d'art de galerie.

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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman

The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss. - Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

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The scar is a deeper level of reconstruction that fuses the new and the old, reconciling, coalescing them, without compromising either one in the name of some contextual form of unity. The scar is a mark of pride and of honor, both for what has been lost and what has been gained. It cannot be erased, except by the most cosmetic means. It cannot be elevated beyond what it is, a mutant tissue, the precursor of unpredictable regenerations. To accept the scar is to accept existence. Healing is not an illusory, cosmetic process, but something that -by articulating differences- both deeply divides and joins together.

Lebbeus Woods

If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. And there is nothing more to it than that.

-Brian Andreas, Story People

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So, this is it: the final photo of my year long self exploration in front of and behind the lens of my camera. I want to thank you all for staying tuned to my channel and for all the encouraging words and the often humorous comments. I'm so grateful to have made such great Flickr friends through it all.

What started out as a way to help me become more comfortable with my self image really became more about the person I have learned to be. What I have discovered is that in order to become more comfortable with what is on the outside, one has to acknowledge and accept what is what on the inside and how it relates to the world around us. Only then can we all be truly Beautiful people :)

Pure event

Articulate value

Infinitive mode

the photo is from two weeks ago, but yesterday i did the same walk with my friend Tyler (visiting after camping out a bit south of here) & tried to articulate some of my thoughts about this landscape... some threads might be coming together

Nine times out of ten I don't get this close to a frog sitting by the bank, especially with a macro lens. I super slowly crouched down in soft mud and got about a foot away. The articulating screen and live view made it easy peasy. Zoom in on his eye and see my reflection.

Castillo, Berlanga de Duero, Soria, Castilla y León, España.

El castillo de Berlanga de Duero se encuentra en la población del mismo nombre, pertenece a la provincia de Soria y fue construido entre los siglos XV, cuando tuvo la función de castillo señorial, y en el XVI cuando se transformó en una fortaleza artillera. Con anterioridad, en los siglos X y XI, hubo una fortaleza musulmana que, en el XII, tras la conquista castellana, se amplió con el cinturón exterior amurallado que se conserva.

Bordeada por el río Escalote y abrazada por el Duero, se corona por la imponente silueta del castillo que la vigila desde el Coborrón. El conjunto monumental está formado por los restos de la fortaleza tardomedieval (siglo XV), la fortaleza artillera de época renacentista (siglo XVI), la muralla que ciñe el cerro en su base (siglo XII) y el Palacio de los Duques de Frías (siglo XVI).

El conjunto se inició entre los años 1460 y 1480 por encargo de D. Luis Tovar y doña María de Guzmán, que ordenaronn levantar el casillo señorial, para servir de fortaleza defensiva y residencia familiar, sobre un castillo anterior situado en lo alto del cerro, donde se localizaba la primitiva villa de Berlanga protegida por la muralla situada a los pies del cerro.

En el año 1512 se proyectó y comenzó a ejecutar el nuevo castillo, configurado como una fortaleza artillera, con fines militares. Esta nueva fortaleza se adaptó tanto a la topografía abrupta del terreno como a la construcción anterior (el castillo medieval señorial).

En el programa constructivo de los linajes Tovar y de los Duques de Frías se encontraba además la erección del palacio en el recinto interior de la muralla del siglo XII, adaptado a los nuevos modos de vida. Este palacio y sus jardines intramuros estructurados en diversos niveles sufrieron, en 1811, un incendio y una destrucción por parte de las tropas napoleónicas, por lo que en la actualidad solo se conserva su fachada principal.

Durante los años 2004-2005 se acometió por parte de la Junta de Castilla y León un Plan Director, un conjunto de planes y actuaciones orientadas a la mejor conservación, protección y revitalización de este rico patrimonio. Se incluyen estudios de investigación, consolidación y restauración de los restos del monumento o actuaciones en el entorno.

El castillo señorial (siglo XV) presenta planta rectangular, en la que destaca el cubo de planta circular, en el ángulo sur, y la torre del homenaje en el lado opuesto. En el interior, dos patios articulan el espacio: uno, a la entrada, más sencillo, funcionó como patio de armas; y el otro, se planteó como patio palacial porticado, con columnas góticas, tiene en el centro un aljibe con una conducción que lleva al depósito de agua.

A partir del castillo señorial medieval, en el siglo XVI se construyó la fortaleza artillera. Tiene planta rectangular con pontentes cubos en cada ángulo, orientados a los puntos cardinales, los dos delanteros albergan sendas casamatas para instalar la artillería de la fortaleza. Los muros, levantados con piedra de sillería de calidad, tienen cinco metros de espesor y se rematan con un parapeto inclinado para desviar los impactos de artillería.

The castle of Berlanga de Duero is located in the town of the same name, belongs to the province of Soria and was built between the fifteenth century, when it served as a stately castle, and the sixteenth when it was transformed into an artillery fortress. Previously, in the 10th and 11th centuries, there was a Muslim fortress that, in the 12th century, after the Castilian conquest, was extended with the outer walled belt that remains.

Bordered by the River Escalote and embraced by the Duero, it is crowned by the imposing silhouette of the castle that watches over it from the Coborrón. The monumental complex is made up of the remains of the late medieval fortress (15th century), the artillery fortress from the Renaissance period (16th century), the wall that surrounds the hill at its base (12th century) and the Palace of the Dukes of Frías ( century XVI).

The complex began between 1460 and 1480 by order of D. Luis Tovar and Doña María de Guzmán, who ordered the building of the stately castle, to serve as a defensive fortress and family residence, on top of a previous castle located on top of the hill. where the primitive town of Berlanga was located, protected by the wall located at the foot of the hill.

In the year 1512 the new castle was projected and began to be executed, configured as an artillery fortress, for military purposes. This new fortress was adapted both to the steep topography of the land and to the previous construction (the stately medieval castle).

In the construction program of the Tovar lineages and the Dukes of Frías was also the erection of the palace in the inner enclosure of the 12th century wall, adapted to the new ways of life. This palace and its intramural gardens structured on various levels suffered, in 1811, a fire and destruction by Napoleonic troops, so that today only its main façade remains.

During the years 2004-2005, the Junta de Castilla y León undertook a Master Plan, a set of plans and actions aimed at the best conservation, protection and revitalization of this rich heritage. Research studies, consolidation and restoration of the remains of the monument or actions in the environment are included.

The stately castle (15th century) has a rectangular floor plan, in which the circular cube in the southern corner stands out, and the homage tower on the opposite side. Inside, two patios articulate the space: one, at the entrance, simpler, functioned as a parade ground; and the other, designed as a porticoed palatial courtyard, with Gothic columns, has a cistern in the center with a conduit that leads to the water tank.

Starting from the medieval stately castle, the artillery fortress was built in the 16th century. It has a rectangular floor plan with powerful cubes at each angle, oriented to the cardinal points, the two front ones house casemates to install the fortress's artillery. The walls, raised with quality ashlar masonry stone, are five meters thick and are finished off with a sloping parapet to deflect artillery impacts.